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  • RIZIN results from Saitama Super Arena: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Jadeep Singh

    Results from today’s Rizin show from the Saitama Super Arena:

    Rena beat Jleana Valentino in a women’s 112 pound fight with a second round flying armbar.

    King Mo Lawal beat Teodoras Aukstuolis in the heavyweight tournament semifinal, dominating him everywhere and winning via decision

    Jiri Prochazka beat Vadim Nemkov in the other heavyweight semifinal.  Very good fight going back-and-forth.  Nemkov had the advantage on the ground.  Both very tired by the end of the 10 minute first round and when it was over, Nemkov just couldn’t get up and didn’t answer the bell for the second round.

    Brennan Ward of Bellator beat Ken Hasegawa with a belly-to-belly suplex and choke.

    Soo Chul Kim beat Maike Linhares in a boring fight via unanimous decision.

    Takeru beat Yang Ming under K-1 rules.  The ref stopped it after a barrage of punches in the second round.

    Gabi Garcia beat Lei’d Tapa via knockout with a backfist that looked most like a reflex action than a planned punch.  Garcia looked tons bigger than Tapa, stunningly so.  Tapa was a lot lighter than her wrestling size and Garcia had the most ridiculous shoulders on a fighter, man or woman, that you’ll see.  Tapa knocked her down first and then both swung wildly with no technique.  The crowd was very into this as a freak show fight.

    Bob Sapp beat Akebono.  This fight was so bad Spike couldn’t air it.

    Baruto beat Peter Aerts via decision.  The 403-pound Baruto threw Aerts around pretty easily.

    Andy Souwer, a kickboxing legend, beat Yuichiro Nagashima with a flurry of hard punches to the head and particularly the body and Nagashima went down.

    Kron Gracie beat Asen Yamamoto via triangle.  He got the triangle, Yamamoto was able to power bomb Gracie but Gracie held on tight for the submission.  Yamamoto was too young and too small.  Gracie’s technique looked great.

    Fedor Emelianenko beat Jadeep Singh via first round ground and pound as Singh tapped from strikes.  Fedor took him down and pretty much beat him up.  Hiroshi Hase made a cameo in the ring with Fedor.

    King Mo beat Jiri Prochazka too win the heavyweight tournament. Prochazka landed a lot of kicks early, but Mo took him down.  Prochazka rushed in after getting up and Mo knocked him out cold with a right hand.

  • Rizin Fighting Federation weigh in results: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Jaideep Singh

    Fedor Emelianenko clocked in at 236 pounds.  Gabi Garcia and Lei’d Tapa in the women’s super heavyweight fight were more than 200 pounds.  This will be the second Rizin show of the week, which takes place on New Year’s Eve at the Saitama Super Arena.

    The show will air on Thursday morning at both 10 a.m. Eastern and Pacific time on Spike.  Not all of the matches will air on Spike, and some matches from the Tuesday event will be on Spike.

    The show is a mix of celebrity fights and names from the past with the attempt to draw mainstream viewers in Japan into MMA with unique personalities.  While Emelianenko is who the show is built around in the U.S., in Japan the most interest revolves around the debut of former sumo star Baruto, the woman’s fight that includes former TNA wrestler Lei’d Tapa, the Bob Sapp vs Akebono fight and the Yamamoto wrestling family vs. Gracie Jiu Jitsu next generation battle with Asen Yamamoto, a teenage champion wrestler whose grandfather was an Olympic wrestler, whose mother was a world champion wrestler and whose uncle is Kid Yamamoto, facing Kron Gracie, the grandson of Helio Gracie and son of Rickson Gracie.

    The show features five pro wrestlers in Akebono, Sapp, Tapa, Yuichiro Nagashima (the famed cross-dressing kickboxer) and Lawal.

    Rena Kubota (112) vs. Jlena Valentino (112)
    King Mo Lawal (214) vs. Teodoras Aukstuolis (216) in the semifinals of
    the heavyweight tournament
    Jiro Prochazka (211.5) vs. Vadim Nemkov (219.5) in the semifinals of the
    heavyweight tournament
    Brennan Ward of Bellator (178) vs. Ken Hasegawa (178.5)
    Takeru (125.5) vs. Yang Ming (125.5) in a K-1 rules match
    Soo Chu Kim (134.5) vs. Maike Linhares (134.5)
    Gabi Garcia (216) vs. Lei’d Tapa (201) in a women’s fight
    Kron Gracie (144.5) vs. Asen Yamamoto (144.5)
    Akebono (419) vs. Bob Sapp (330.5) in a shoot boxing rules match
    Andy Souwer (159) vs. Yuichiro Nagashima (158)
    Peter Aerts (didn’t weigh in) vs. Baruto (403.5)
    Fedor Emelianenko (236) vs. Jaideep Singh (233)
    Finals of heavyweight tournament

  • Fedor finds a fighting date for New Year’s Eve

    At Bellator’s September Dynamite show, it was announced that Fedor Emilianenko would return to MMA on New Year’s Eve for a new Japanese promotion which we later learned would be called Rizin Fighting Federation. Former Pride president Nobuyuki Sakakibara made the announcement but didn’t announce an opponent for the former Grand Prix champion.

    Several names have been rumoured to be Fedor’s opponent with word first leaking out (and quickly denied) that the opponent would be former Super Fight League fighter Jaideep Singh. Seemingly every non-UFC heavyweight who didn’t already have a fight booked was linked at one point or another, and late Thursday night, the promotion held a press conference, to announce Fedor’s opponent on December 31st.

    And that opponent is…Jaideep Singh.

    At the time of the original rumours, Singh had only fought one in MMA, a 2013 bout in which he submitted 0-1 fighter Alireza Tavakoli. He’s since fought for the DEEP promotion in Japan, scoring a 2nd round KO over Carlos Toyota (6-6-1). Fedor and Singh will be the main event of  “Breakfast with Fedor” — a show that will be broadcast on New Year’s Eve on Spike TV at 10 AM Eastern. The show will feature fights from the three shows that Rizin will be running that weekend, two of which involve current Bellator fighters Brennan Ward and King Mo Lawal in separate fights.

    Emilianenko was at one time considered the top heavyweight and pound-for-pound fighter in all of MMA. He had a 10-year winning streak snapped at the hands of current UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum in June 2010. He went on to get knocked out in his next two Strikeforce fights against Bigfoot Silva and Dan Henderson before returning to Russia and Japan. He won twice for M1 Global and once for Dream before retiring after a June 2012 KO of Pedro Rizzo.

  • WOR 11/6: Booking around Seth Rollins’ injury, every bad fight ever made in one day

    Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back today with a very long breaking news audio show on a bunch of different stories — every bad idea fight you can imagine being put together all at once for Bellator and Rizin, how Seth Rollins going down may lead to a breath of fresh air for the entire company with so many booking options and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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  • Fedor to face pro wrestler Tsuyoshi Kosaka on New Year’s Eve

    In a night filled with trips back in time, Inside MMA reported tonight that Fedor Emelianenko’s opponent for the Rizin New Year’s Eve show would be Tsuyoshi Kosaka, a 45-year-old retired pro wrestler from Japan.  

    After the report aired, Jerry Millen, who works with Emelianenko, denied that Kosaka was the opponent.  Observer sources in Japan say that Emelianenko’s opponent has not been decided and there were several different people under consdieration, Kosaka being one of them.

    Kosaka who has a strong judo background, was one of the major stars with the RINGS promotion in the 90, where he had some classic pro wrestling matches, and also headlined a Tokyo Dome show for New Japan Pro Wrestling.

    He also competed as a regular in Pride, and went to the semifinals of an eight man UFC heavyweight title tournament after Randy Couture vacated the title, before losing a classic fight with Bas Rutten.

    Kosaka won a controversial match over Emelianenko on December 22, 2000, in RINGS, the first loss of Emelianenko’s career.  It was in a tournament, and ended in 17 seconds when Emelianenko was too badly cut to continue from an illegal elbow.  The match would have been ruled a no contest normally, but being part of a tournament, they declared Kosaka the winner since Emelianenko wouldn’t be allowed to continue in the tournament.  Kosaka then lost in the next round via decision to Randy Couture.

    It was one of the great “What if’s” in history, since, had Emelianenko not been cut and advanced, he and Couture would have faced in 2001. Fedor would eventually avenge the loss to Kosaka in a fight on April 3, 2005, in Pride, saw Emelianenko win via doctor’s stoppage at the end of the first round. Kosaka had been announced as coming out of retirement for the show last week.

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    Dave and Bryan have a brand new Wrestling Observer Radio talking this story right now for subscribers along with the Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock 3 announcement and more!

  • New Japanese MMA promotion with Fedor: Rizin Fighting Federation

    Two-time Observer Awards promoter of the year winner Nobuyuki Sakakibara announced today in Tokyo the formation of his new promotion, the Rizin Fighting Federation, a new attempt to rekindle the heyday of Japanese MMA, complete with a New Year’s Eve show that will air in the U.S. in prime time on Spike TV.

    What was announced is two shows, both at the Saitama Super Arena, one on 12/29 and the other on 12/31.

    The biggest news is that Fuji TV, one of the major networks in Japan, will broadcast the event. Fuji TV was the network that broadcasted Pride until it was dropped in the wake of media stories about Yakuza influence in the promotion, which led to the group’s demise.  It was not made clear if the show would air live in Japan, with the indication that Fuji TV would air it as a special built around the fights of Fedor Emelianenko and New Japan’s Kazushi Sakuraba, who was the biggest name Japanese star announced as competing.

    Among the plans for the promotion include an eight person heavyweight tournament with $500,000 going to the winner, which would be taking place at some point in the future.

    The rules will be similar to that of Pride, with men’s fights being 20 minutes in length with rounds of ten minutes, five minutes and five minutes, and using the old Pride judging criteria.  Moves like soccer kicks and knees to the head of a downed opponent will be legal.  The fights will be fought inside a ring, but the ring would have five ropes instead of three or four.  Women’s fights will be three five minute rounds.  There will also be non-MMA rules fights, such as kickboxing fights, on the December shows.

    Sakakibara was looking to link the world’s of amateur wrestling, pro wrestling, MMA, Jiu Jitsu and kickboxing.  Appearing from pro wrestling were Sakuraba and Nobuhiko Takada, who will be a figurehead officer such as in the heyday of Pride.  Tomiaki Fukuta, the chairman of the Japanese amateur wrestling association was also there.

    Rena Kubota, a female star of kickboxing and Shoot boxing promotions in Japan will debut in MMA, as will Gabi Garcia, a ridiculously muscular world super heavyweight Jiu Jitsu champion.

    The main event on 12/29 pits Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Shinya Aoki in a battle of Japan’s original submission king against Japan’s current submission star.  Aoki, who is smaller than Sakuraba, is the current One lightweight champion.

    Also at the press conference were Scott Coker from Bellator and Jon Slusser of Spike TV.  Coker said that Bellator fighters would be on the show and that Sean Grande and Jimmy Smith would be announcing.

    Sakakibara said talent would come from Bellator, BAMMA, KSW, Bushido, Jungle Fight, Desert Force, Deep, Shoot, Pancrase and ZST promotions.

    No opponent was named for Emelianenko.  MMA Fighting had reported Jaideep Singh, a kickboxer who has only fought once in MMA, as the foe.

  • Wrestling Observer Live 10/6: NXT Takeover preview, Iron Man or Iron Woman, more!

    Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including tons of thoughts on Raw from Monday, Fedor Emelianenko’s alleged next opponent, IRON MAN or IRON WOMAN, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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